Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:42:40 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question and a suggestion about loadable modules Message-ID: <20020220194240.GC4350@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020220190906.GJ3600@raggedclown.net> References: <20020219185856.GB1191@raggedclown.net> <20020219205809.GA18746@dan.emsphone.com> <20020220190906.GJ3600@raggedclown.net>
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In the last episode (Feb 20), Cliff Sarginson said: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:58:09PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 19), Cliff Sarginson said: > > > Hello, > > > Someone suggested this may be the right list for this. > > > > > > - Has consideration in the loadable modules implementation been given > > > to a module dependency facility, in the manner of "depmod" in Linux ? > > > So that any module loaded will automagically load modules it depends > > > on to run ? > > > > See the module(9) and MODULE_DEPEND(9) manpages. > > > Ok, well the facility exists I see. > Is it used ? Yes. $ cd /sys $ grep MODULE_DEPEND **/*.c | wc -l 137 $ NIC drivers sometimes require miibus, USB drivers require usb, SCSI card drivers require cam, etc. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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